{"id":9493,"date":"2020-08-09T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2020-08-09T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:33:28","slug":"mahinda-rajapaksa-takes-oaths-as-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/mahinda-rajapaksa-takes-oaths-as-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oaths as new Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Mahinda Rajapaksa was today sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s new Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He took oaths at the Kelaniya Rajamaha Vihara Temple in the presence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and several other invitees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">His appointment comes after the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) won the just concluded Parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rajapaksa also secured the highest number of preferential votes at the election from the Kurunegala District.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The former President served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka three times prior to being elected again at the just concluded General Elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa was today sworn in as Sri Lanka\u2019s new Prime Minister. He took&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}